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  • SXSW Hipsters Pretend to Know Bands So Obscure They Don’t Even Exist

    If you ask the crowd at SXSW about some hot new bands like “DJ Heavy Flow” and “What the Fuck Bruce Jenner,” they’ll probably tell you that they not only know of their music, but are pretty into it too. In fact, What the Fuck Bruce Jenner is even on the same level as “Neil Patrick Harassment”–which is surely saying something.

    The only problem here is that these bands don’t exist (yet), and are simply the creations of big fat liar exposer Jimmy Kimmel and his awesome Lie Witness News segment.

    Usually, Kimmel takes to Hollywood Blvd to prove why most people shouldn’t breed–but this week he’s been doing his show live from Austin, Texas at the SXSW festival so he figured that hipsters were an easy target.

    At SXSW, there’s apparently nothing worse than not knowing some obscure band. Hasn’t anyone ever heard of the words “nope, never heard of them–I should check them out though!”

  • American Hipster Poll Finds Unfavorable Opinions

    The word ‘hipster’ has taken on many meanings over the years, from jazz potheads to ironic 20-somethings, but whatever Americans currently believe it to mean, they are now turning on the subculture in a big way. A new poll has found that 42% of American voters have an “unfavorable” opinion of hipsters.

    The poll, conducted by Public Policy Polling (PPP), surveyed 571 U.S. voters who, overall, did not have a favorable picture of hipsters, though 43% “aren’t sure” what the think about them. While 23% of the voters polled thought hipsters had made “a positive cultural contribution to society,” a full 46% chose the polling option that said, “They just soullessly appropriate cultural tropes from the past for their own ironic amusement.”

    The results were split slightly between Democrats and Republicans, with 34% of Democrats having an unfavorable opinion of the group and 18% having a favorable one. 48% of Republicans had an unfavorable opinion and only 9% had a favorable one. Only 2% of Republicans stated they would be more likely to vote for a hipster for political office, while 27% of independent voters stated they would be more likely to vote for a hipster.

    The results were even more disparate when taken by age group. 43% of voters 18-29 actually have a favorable opinion of hipsters, to 29% who have an unfavorable opinion of them. Only 6% of voters over age 65 have a favorable opinion, while 37% of them have an unfavorable one.

    By race, Hispanics were generally most favorable toward hipsters (46% favorable) while only 8% of white voters were favorable toward hipsters. A full 33% of the Hispanic voters polled considered themselves hipsters, while only 6% of white voters and 10% of black voters considered themselves hipsters.

  • Jimmy Kimmel Out-Hipsters Coachella Hipsters

    As you probably know, Coachella’s second weekend just wrapped up, and by most accounts it was a great festival filled with great bands.

    Jimmy Kimmel decided to ask festival goers about some of the more obscure bands that played Coachella this year. So obscure, in fact, that they don’t even exist.

  • Use the Coachella Lineup to Check Your Hipster Level

    As you may know, Coachella released its lineup last week. If you were on the interwebs at all, you probably heard a lot of “Stone Roses? Stone Roses?” You wanna be adored? You may want to stay home from Coachella, as most of the 18 year-olds have no idea who you are. Of course, that’s not a rip on The Stone Roses, and more of a rip on the dumbasses who bitch about them on Twitter.

    But I digress. Any festival lineup is going to have its supporters and its detractors. Coachella 2013 has some great acts, and some less inspiring acts. That’s the way it’s gonna be.

    Luckily, we can use the Coachella lineup to determine a person’s hipster cred, although we can’t really figure out which end of the spectrum is more desirable. Sometimes it’s nice to be a “disgusting mainstream whore.” Unless you’re “pure filth hipster scum,” in which case it’s so mainstream to kind of like the mainstream.

    It’s simple – you’re assigned positive of negative points for every band in the festival that you like. Red Hot Chili Peppers are the most offensive to hipster, with a score of -10. If you find yourself liking bands like the Wombats, Cassy, and Sam XL Pure Filth Sound, you’re going to skyrocket up the hipster chart.

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    [Endless Origami via The Daily What]
    [Photo courtesy JohnnyCashsAshes, Flickr]

  • The Instagram Song: Two Cute Girls, Hipster Jokes, and Murder

    The world needed two cute blondes singing about Instagram over a bouncy acoustic strum. Don’t argue, it did.

    At first, you may think this is just a hipster’s love song to Instagram. Luckily, “The Instagram Song (Put a Filter on Me)” succeeds in using hipster indie folk in a way that pokes fun at hipsters and their favorite iPhone app.

    Yeah, that’s sooo ironic or something. Check it out below:

    Moral of the story: The more photos that you take of quinoa and dog poop, the more likely you are to wind up someone’s prison bitch. Right?

    [Julia Mattison via Mashable]

  • What is the Higgs Boson? These Hipsters Are Clueless

    With the scientific community still buzzing about this week’s announcement concerning the Higgs boson, we think it’s important to educate the internet community about its significance and delve into the reason why people are making such a fuss about something that sounds like a villain in a Western.

    And by “educate,” I of course mean “let the grownups educate.” That’s why we gave you this wonderful video of a particle physicist (and epic beard owner) explaining the Higgs boson to us like we were five years old. His beautiful analogy revolving around snow allowed me to understand the true importance of the Higgs boson. I now know exactly how everything works.

    Just kidding, it’s still confusing as hell. The Higgs boson is the theorized particle that gives everything in the universe mass. There. That’s enough to keep myself from being embarrassed as parties, and that’s really all we can ask for, right?

    You can find plenty of videos of people explaining (or attempting to explain) the Higgs boson on YouTube. But it’s rarer to see someone out on the street, Jaywalking-style, asking people if they know anything about the famous particle.

    And according to this “Hipster Pop Quiz” from the folks at Motherboard, they don’t. know. anything.

    We should probably cut the good people of Williamsburg some slack. Until earlier this week, when everyone one of Facebook became a particle physicist, it’s doubtful that most of the country would have been able to give an accurate on-the-spot description of science’s biggest discovery as of late.

  • The Can: USB Tin Can Phone Seeks Kickstarter Funding

    Even if you grew up in a time when there is a cell phone attached to every ear, you probably tried this at least once when you were a kid. If you didn’t, you have no sense of wonder and you are what is wrong with the world. That may be a little harsh, but that’s the reality. Everyone needs time to be a kid, building forts and tree houses and whatnot, and using primitive forms of communication to make pretend. But for those of you who had a cell phone from birth, there is still time to make amends.

    This startup on Kickstarter brings back the golden age of yester-year and gives it modern flair. Now you can feel like a kid in a treehouse again, while talking to your friends on Skype or your mobile phone.

    The video says it all. You plug the tincan, which is fitted with a microphone and speaker, into your USB or cell phone audio jack and talk to your friends and loved ones through it.

    According to Monkey Wrench Designs Kickstarter page, The Can is made from recycled cans of cream corn. So if you are wondering what that funny smell is when you talk into it, there you have it. Just kidding, I’m sure they wash them thoroughly before use. I’m sure of it.

    The man in the video is Beauford Shackleton, or so they say. He and his company are asking for $30K to get the ball rolling, but so far have only accumulated around $3K. According to Kickstarter Q&A: “Without the $30k goal we can’t pay for the tooling and vendors, nor keep Beauford happy with plenty of Bud while he assembles your Can.” So please, give this hipster a break. Keep him in weed for the next few months, and get you daily dose of nostalgia at the same time.

  • Hipsters In the Future: [Viral Video]

    Hipsters In the Future: [Viral Video]

    This video is climbing the charts fast at Youtube. It was put together to promote Social Media Week.

    We always think of the Internet, social media, and memes as the domain of the young. But, everybody gets old.

    What kind of conversations will we have when we are old about cat videos, Anonymous, ragefaces, and general lulz? And, what will replace all that? Remember Digg? Myspace? Prodigy?

    Each generation is so cutting edge. But, eventually, the next media format comes along. Boundaries get pushed. Previous ways to measure popularity pale in comparison to current ways.

    But, for now, we can laugh at the concept of aging hipsters.